IBEX (EYE-bex)
Wild
mountain goat with long, ridged, backward curving horns
Common
clues: Wild
goat; Surefooted goat; Mountain goat; Alpine goat; Goat with
recurved horns; Eurasian goat
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News: Alpine
ibex defy gravity on near-vertical dam wall
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Nubian Ibex
An ibex, also called steinbock, is a type of wild mountain goat with large recurved horns that are transversely ridged in front. Ibex are found in Eurasia and North Africa. The name ibex comes from Latin, borrowed from Iberian or Aquitanian, akin to Old Spanish bezerro "bull", modern Spanish becerro "yearling".
Nubian
Ibex
Legend had it that the ibex's spine was rigid, so that the goat could not look back. If threatened from behind, it would jump off a precipice and land unharmed on its horns.
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